Violent world of moshpit culture, the

The Moshpit: Hub of a live music culture that is high in sex and violence... and no stranger to death. For the hardcore fans of groups like Limp Bizkit Hole Korn and Slipknot the music is only part of the experince. At gigs worldwide fans literally hurl themselves into a pit - the mosh pit. The result is a mass of seething bodies where fierce physical contact provides a brief exhilarating escape from everyday life. The mosh pit means random sexual encounters as well as haphazard violence... and occasionally as Joe Ambrose discovers it can lead to encounters of unexpected tenderness too.